[OE-core] [PATCH] mime,mime-xdg: Conflict with allarch

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:21 AM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 21:44 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > mime and mime-xdb classes add dependencies ( both runtime and
> > buildtime
> > ) on target packages, therefore recipes using allarch should not
> > inherit
> > mime/mime-xdg or vice-versa, this fixes subtle sstate mismatches
> >
> > [YOCTO #13805]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/classes/mime-xdg.bbclass | 5 +++++
> >  meta/classes/mime.bbclass     | 5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> Is this the right way to fix this? mime info probably is arch
> independent, so should we be whitelisting some of the dependencies?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
Khem and I had a short discussion about this [1]. His first approach
was to remove DEPENDS. As far as I remember the deps were added to
avoid QA warning.

Honestly I never understood why these are spawned. If there is a fix /
workaround this could be reduced to rdeps which an be handled for
allarch.

[1] https://github.com/YoeDistro/openembedded-core/commit/5605a9cf78c3731e2cc055cd4f8cc88a0b3d7e26

Andreas